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Fri, 24 May 2019 02:06:41 GMTKinetic Element is one of those bands that does not play out much, largely due to life issues all of us have, and now compounded by the fact that...Kinetic Element is one of those bands that does not play out much, largely due to life issues all of us have, and now compounded by the fact that our guitarist lives 3,000 miles away and can only come to us on rare occasions. We're all getting on in years and we have largely contented ourselves with making and marketing pretty darn good symphonic prog albums. BUT, we have played ROSfest (2016), Terra Incognita (2016) and Progtoberfest (2017). And we have a date at Progstock in October 2019.

So KE'S "tour" is three shows.
(1) Oct. 10 Thursday night at the South Beach Grill, Virginia Beach, VA with another band not yet named. Starting time is 8:00 p.m.
(2) Oct. 13 Sunday night at The Waiting Room, Rahway NJ, 11:30 p.m. It is the Sunday Night Late Night event of the Progstock festival. We are not on the big stage but we'll be on one at some point. We will be by ourselves for this.
(3) Oct. 14, Monday night at My Fathers' Place at the Roslyn Hotel, Roslyn NY with IZZ opening the show at 8:00 p.m. and KE going on at 9:30-ish. IZZ will be a tough act to follow! Both bands will be performing their new albums in addition to older material.
Even with only three shows we have our work cut out for us to get it rehearsed and get our asses to all three. And we invite you all to all three shows. The Long Island date is the day after the Progstock date.

The lineup now features guitarist Peter Matuchniak, who is fairly well known in the genre, having played in Gekko Project, Evolve IV, Bomber Goggles, and Steve Hackett tribute band The Steppes. We also have, from the Norfolk VA area, vocalist Saint John Coleman of the prog cover band Deja, who has done a bangup job since becoming our first vocalist member who is really committed to the 13-year-old project.
Of course, on keyboards, yours truly (Mike Visaggio), on drums Michael Murray who has been with me since the start, and on bass the thundering Rickenbacker of Mark Tupko.

We're just some old proggers who can't get rid of the bug that bit us when we were young, and in the last few years KE has gotten a fair amount of attention and critical acclaim for our work. We hope to see you in the fall these gigs.

The Facebook event links are on Mike Visaggio's FB page as well as Fans of Kinetic Element and Kinetic Element / Prog Rock Band. There is video of the band's appearances of the festivals on You Tube, just put in Kinetic Element into the search bar and you can see what you might expect even though we have had to replace two members since then.

Greatly anticipated new studio solo album from Rosalie Cunningham, formerly of acclaimed band Purson.

London - Esoteric Antenna are delighted to announce a new studio album with Rosalie Cunningham. Since her celebrated band Purson played its final gig in late 2016, singer, songwriter and multi instrumentalist Rosalie has been working on a new solo album, to showcase her talents as the visionary solo artist she always was

As Rosalie says, “Being able to take time over arrangements without time pressures means that everything feels right, without being contrived.”

The album features a full range of musical styles showing off to the full Rosalies incredible vocal range and playing ability and is sure to delight both old fans of Purson and hopefully many new fans.

The self-titled album will be available both on Digipack single CD and 180 gram vinyl format on July 26th. In support of the release, Rosalie and her band will be touring the UK in July 2019 with further dates to come.

TRACK LISTING
Ride on My Bike
Fuck Love
House of the Glass Red
Dethroning of the Party Queen
Nobody Hears
Riddles and Games
Butterflies
A Yarn from the Wheel

Distribution is being handled in the US exclusively by Amped Distribution www.ampeddistribution.com and wholesale inquiries can be made to Alex Jimenez at alex@ampeddistribution.com
]]>goprhttps://www.progressiveears.org/forum/showthread.php/24130-British-Prog-Diva-Rosalie-Cunningham-To-Release-New-Self-Titled-Solo-Albumhttps://www.progressiveears.org/forum/showthread.php/24127-Peter-Lemer-Jet-Yellow-CD-with-Laurie-Allan-Francis-Moze-amp-Allan-Holdsworth?goto=newpost
Sun, 19 May 2019 22:25:41 GMTThis looks promising...
http://www.artofliferecords.com/jetyellow.html
Attachment 13041...This looks promising...

]]>Giantstepshttps://www.progressiveears.org/forum/showthread.php/24127-Peter-Lemer-Jet-Yellow-CD-with-Laurie-Allan-Francis-Moze-amp-Allan-HoldsworthPROG-ROCK Diner/PAUL SEARS Radio Hour 5/19/19: 10pm-12am EST Info/Playlisthttps://www.progressiveears.org/forum/showthread.php/24126-PROG-ROCK-Diner-PAUL-SEARS-Radio-Hour-5-19-19-10pm-12am-EST-Info-Playlist?goto=newpost
Sun, 19 May 2019 17:56:13 GMTHello, this Sunday 5/19/19 from 10pm to Midnight (EST) on Radio Fairfax at www.fcac.org/radio-fairfax and on Cable in No. Virginia, The Prog-Rock...Hello, this Sunday 5/19/19 from 10pm to Midnight (EST) on Radio Fairfax at www.fcac.org/radio-fairfax and on Cable in No. Virginia, The Prog-Rock Serves more 'A's during the 1st hour with: Anekdoten, Anderson/Wakeman, Jon And Vangelis, Anderson Ponty Band and Anderson Bruford Wakeman and Howe. Paul steps into the kitchen and stirs up a NEW release from The Moon Men, a NEW release from the The Muffins and an older one from The Muffins. We hope you enjoy the show, let us know. Thanks for listening!

ANEKDOTEN - Hole - FROM WITHIN
ANEKDOTEN - 30 Pieces - A TIME OF DAY
ANDERSON/WAKEMAN - 23/24/11 - THE LIVING TREE
JON and VANGELIS - The Friends Of Mr. Cairo - THE FRIENDS OF MR. CAIRO
ANDERSON PONTY BAND - And You And I - BETTER LATE THAN NEVER
ANDERSON PONTY BAND - Renaissance Of The Sun - BETTER LATE THAN NEVER
ANDERSON BRUFORD WAKEMAN HOWE - Teakbois - ANDERSON BRUFORD WAKEMAN HOWE

I am a big Nad Sylvan fan, have both his solo albums(one on vinyl), love the Unifaun stuff and was eagerly awaiting the 3rd album completing the trilogy.
I've watched this video and I can't help muttering to myself "wt??"
What is this? It just seems to meander around without any melody.I thought the break and build up in the middle might grab me, but nothing happened. I can't find anything remotely enjoyable when listening to this like I do his other work.

Is it just me? do you like it?
This album was an auto buy for me, but now, methinks not!
]]>Top Cathttps://www.progressiveears.org/forum/showthread.php/24125-New-Nad-Sylvan-song-I-am-the-SeaNew Canterbury band- being mixed by Andy Tillison (The Tangent)https://www.progressiveears.org/forum/showthread.php/24122-New-Canterbury-band-being-mixed-by-Andy-Tillison-(The-Tangent)?goto=newpost
Sat, 18 May 2019 10:08:39 GMTNew instrumental Canterbury rock band called 'Zopp'- similar to Egg, National Health and Hatfield and the North.

The entire album is currently being mixed by Andy Tillison from The Tangent, who also plays on the album.

Expected release later this year :)
]]>Zopphttps://www.progressiveears.org/forum/showthread.php/24122-New-Canterbury-band-being-mixed-by-Andy-Tillison-(The-Tangent)The Canvas Prog Hour # 563 Yes-1969https://www.progressiveears.org/forum/showthread.php/24121-The-Canvas-Prog-Hour-563-Yes-1969?goto=newpost
Sat, 18 May 2019 01:45:17 GMT https://canvasproductions.net/the-prog-hour :ipa
Attachment...]]>A new show is up and ready to roll for the next two weeks at --------------------> https://canvasproductions.net/the-prog-hour :ipa

]]>Canvashttps://www.progressiveears.org/forum/showthread.php/24121-The-Canvas-Prog-Hour-563-Yes-1969Magma To Release New Album “Zëss” June 28thhttps://www.progressiveears.org/forum/showthread.php/24115-Magma-To-Release-New-Album-“Zëss”-June-28th?goto=newpost
Thu, 16 May 2019 18:49:47 GMTFrench Music Legends Magma To Release New Album “Zëss” June 28th!
PRE ORDER NOW - 40 PAGES DELUXE CD BOOK - INCLUDES ALL LYRICS!
FULGURANCE,...French Music Legends Magma To Release New Album “Zëss” June 28th!

PRE ORDER NOW - 40 PAGES DELUXE CD BOOK - INCLUDES ALL LYRICS!

FULGURANCE, APOTHEOSIS AND TRANSFIGURATION

Much to the excitement of Magma fans worldwide, the legendary French ensemble will be releasing a new album titled “Zëss” on June 28, 2019! The CD is now available for pre-order and features a 40-page deluxe CD book which includes all the lyrics to the album.

“Zëss”—the name itself is sharp as a blade, slender as a cut, sudden like a darting meteor, fast as it is acute. While the inspiration that permeates “Zëss” comes from time immemorial, a first draft emerged in 1977. After being gradually completed, the piece debuted in concert in the spring of 1979. It became a staple of Magma’s repertoire until it was set aside in 1983.

The music itself seems born out of the night in order to transfigure it. The first chords ring out in the dim dawn, then rise and cast their great shadows against the day. Already their orb suggests the oval shape of an ancient stadium set in the cosmic darkness. It is an immense celestial arena, an agora where all the voices of the universe resonate. Everyone has assembled for a last celebration, a gathering of the innumerable into a single point where everything comes together for the Day of Oblivion.

“Zëss” had long been plagued by its incompleteness and its recording was deferred for years. Four decades after its first draft, the work has finally been recorded in an orchestral version that gives it both its true dreamlike dimension and its transcending power. For “Zëss” is above all the visionary reflection of an immemorial dream haunting the most obscure part of our souls.

“Zëss” treads a line between a vital overflowing and the edges of the unlivable. It is an incandescent and heady oratorio where consciousness questions its other side in a measureless journey. “Zëss” indicates the ultimate reversal out of which bursts a beyond of music that only music can reach. Magma's whole story condensed…

BEHIND THE SCENE OF THE RECORDING: youtu.be/xCF9-k_LnOg

PRE ORDER NOW - AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE ON JUNE 28th - AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY AT SEVENTH RECORDS ON JUNE 14th - 40 PAGES DELUXE CD BOOK - INCLUDES ALL LYRICS

I'm just a retired guy having fun in his home studio wanting to share my musical ideas while I'm blessed to be able to.
Creating music is my release from this crazy world we live in and from the personal challenges we often have to face along the way.

Enough with the philosophizing already...lol
hope you enjoy and thank you for taking time to listen

Italy - Critically acclaimed as one of the best records ever, Robert Wyatt's 1974 masterpiece “Rock Bottom” has been re-arranged by Craig Fortnam for his amazing North Sea Radio Orchestra. Featuring long time Wyatt's collaborator and Henry Cow founder John Greaves on bass guitar and vocals and the amazing vocalist Annie Barbazza as lead singer, “Songs from Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom” is a hearfelt, fantastic tribute to Robert Wyatt's music.

“This concert is a beautiful event, for me. These musicians seem to me to have have really grasped what my songs are about; but at the same time, created an entirely fresh way of putting the music together. I feel so honored and so grateful.” - Robert Wyatt, March 2019

“One of the greatest albums of the 1970s, beautifully reimagined and re-written for orchestra. I have listened to Rock Bottom hundreds of times, and thought I was familiar with it: but this brilliant new version opens up new depths, fresh vistas, hidden truths. An amazing achievement.” - Jonathan Coe, March 2019

“When John Greaves asked me about producing this album and the concert at Conservatorio Nicolini in Piacenza, for Dark Companion I immediately replied 'yes'. I already knew North Sea Radio Orchestra and respect Craig as one of the most talented musicians in today’s British scene. ‘Rock Bottom’ is my favourite album ever and John Greaves my closest friend whom I respect very highly and have had the honour of releasing one of his finest albums to date on Manticore. Annie Barbazza? Well she is a marvelous singer and musician and I very much agree with the late Greg Lake who was really amazed by her voice and went on to produce her first album for Manticore as well. So I hope you enjoy what I think is a fantastically soulful, heartfelt and graceful tribute to the poetry of Robert Wyatt.” - Max Marchini, April 2019

Arranged and directed by Craig Fortnam
Executive Production by Max Marchini
Recorded live, mixed and mastered by Alberto Callegari at Elfo Recording
Studios, Tavernago, Italy during “Musiche Nuove a Piacenza Festival”,
November 30th, 2018

Dark Companion Records - Tavernago (PC) - www.darkcompanion.com - info@darkcompanion.com
international wholesales and mailorder: www.maracash.com - italian distribution: www.self.it
]]>goprhttps://www.progressiveears.org/forum/showthread.php/24107-“Songs-from-Robert-Wyatt-s-Rock-Bottom”-by-The-North-Sea-OrchestraPROG-ROCK Diner/PAUL SEARS Radio Hour 5/12/19: Info/Playlist 10pm-12am ESThttps://www.progressiveears.org/forum/showthread.php/24103-PROG-ROCK-Diner-PAUL-SEARS-Radio-Hour-5-12-19-Info-Playlist-10pm-12am-EST?goto=newpost
Sun, 12 May 2019 19:21:29 GMTHello, Happy mom's day but not themed as such for this show on 5/12/19 from 10pm-Midnight EST on Radio Fairfax at www.fcac.org/radio-fairfax and on Cable in No. Virginia on COX and Verizon. Please join us as I serve more 'A's with Ankh, Anglagard, Ange and Anekdoten and then Paul presents a good portion of the Angels & Demons That Play CD that only comes with his book. We hope you enjoy the show. Here's a playlist:

PETER BLEGVAD - Meet The Rain - Just Woke Up
PETER BLEGVAD - Waste Of Time - Just Woke Up
PETER BLEGVAD - Bee Dream - Just Woke Up
PETER BLEGVAD - Just Woke Up - Just Woke Up
PERE UBU - Waiting For Mary - London Texas
PERE UBU - Cry - London Texas
PERE UBU - The Waltz - London Texas
PERE UBU - Love Love Love - London Texas
MILES DAVIS - Hip Skip - The Complete On The Corner Sessions
MILES DAVIS What They Do (excerpt) - The Complete On The Corner Sessions
]]>Progluvrhttps://www.progressiveears.org/forum/showthread.php/24082-PROG-ROCK-Diner-PAUL-SEARS-Radio-Hour-5-05-19-Info-Playlist-10pm-12am-ESThttps://www.progressiveears.org/forum/showthread.php/24081-Rick-Wakeman-s-Emporium-Now-Open?goto=newpost
Sun, 05 May 2019 12:57:58 GMTRick Wakeman is pleased to announce a new partnership with Music Glue as the new home of his online store, The Rick Wakeman Emporium! Featuring...Rick Wakeman is pleased to announce a new partnership with Music Glue as the new home of his online store, The Rick Wakeman Emporium! Featuring Signed Special Items, Signed CDs, DVDs and LPs, Signed Memorabilia & Artwork, CDs, DVDs and LPs, T-Shirts, Mugs and Tote Bags!

Born in Perivale, Middlesex, England, Rick Wakeman's interest in music manifested itself very early, and from the age of seven on he studied classical piano. At the age of 14, he joined a local band, Atlantic Blues, the same year he left school to enroll in the Royal College of Music. He had his eye on a career as a concert pianist, but Wakeman was dismissed from the college after it became clear that he preferred playing in clubs to studying technique.

By his late teens, he was an established session man, playing on records by such diverse acts as Black Sabbath, Brotherhood of Man, and Edison Lighthouse. At the end of the '60s, his name also began appearing on the credits of albums by such artists as Al Stewart and David Bowie, and one set of sessions with a folk-rock band called the Strawbs led to his joining the group in 1970. After two albums with the Strawbs, Wakeman joined Yes, a post-psychedelic hard rock band that had attracted considerable attention with their first three albums. Wakeman played a key role in the final shape of the group's fourth record, Fragile, creating a fierce, swirling sound on an array of electric and acoustic pianos, synthesizers, and Mellotrons. Fragile was a hit, driven by the chart success of the single "Roundabout," and Wakeman was suddenly elevated to star status.

Yes' next album, Close to the Edge, expanded his audience and his appeal, for his instruments were heard almost continually on the record. During the making of Close to the Edge in 1972, Wakeman also recorded his first solo album, an instrumental work entitled The Six Wives of Henry VIII, which consisted of his musical interpretations of the lives and personalities of the said six royal spouses. Released early in 1973 on A&M Records, it performed respectably on the charts. Public reception of Yes' 1974 album, Tales From Topographic Oceans, was mixed, and the critics were merciless in their attacks upon the record. Wakeman exited the group after the album's supporting tour. His new solo album, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, adapted from the writings of Jules Verne and featuring a rock band, narrator (David Hemmings), and full orchestral and choral accompaniment, was released to tremendous public response in both America and England, where it topped the charts. In 1975, his next album, The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, was given a grand-scale premiere at Wembley's Empire Pool, although it also cost Wakeman a fortune to stage the event on ice. During this same period, Wakeman began working on film scores with the music for Ken Russell's Lisztomania, which was a modest hit.

In 1977, Wakeman returned to Yes, with which he has continued recording and touring. His solo career continued on A&M into the end of the '70s, with Criminal Record and Rhapsodies, which were modestly successful. Wakeman's biggest media splash during this period, however, came through his alleged role in getting the Sex Pistols dropped by A&M Records soon after being signed. None of this bothered his fans, which rapidly expanded to encompass those he picked up through his work with lyricist Tim Rice on a musical adaptation of George Orwell's 1984, and his burgeoning film work, which included the music to movies about the 1976 Winter Olympics and the 1982 soccer World Cup competition. Additionally, he became a regular on Britain's Channel 4. Wakeman's audience and reputation survived the 1980s better than almost any progressive rock star of his era, as he continued releasing albums on his own label. He also remained associated with Yes into the '90s.

In January 2016, Trevor Rabin announced he plans to perform with Wakeman and Jon Anderson as Anderson, Rabin and Wakeman (ARW), later in the year. Anderson revealed the three wrote "some unique songs together". Also in January, following requests from fans, Wakeman recorded piano versions of "Life on Mars?", "Space Oddity", and "Always Together" as a tribute to David Bowie following his death with proceeds from the songs donated to Macmillan Cancer Support.